Excerpt from Our Bishops: A Sketch of the Origin and Growth of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ as Shown in the Lives of Its Distinguished LeadersThere are many others of these fathers whose faithful, self denying labors the pen of the historian should record before the waves of oblivion have rolled over them. The author has confined his labors to those, whom the church by her highest authority, has called from the ranks and placed in positions of honor and in¿uence. The means of information at his command were limited, but he aimed to gather what was accessible from living men, from private diaries, from church publications, and to present them to the church as his space would allow.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.